My DD has never had a bottle, and has been in daycare 8.30-5 for 3 days a week from 6.5-12 months and 4 days a week from 12 months.
We did BLW and no purees, and started solids at 5.5 months. She was very, very ready for them, and has eaten like a horse from day 1 - helped by the fact that I too am no dairy cow, and that solids were so much better for her reflux than BM/liquids.
What we did re solids was make sure she'd tried everything in her lunchbox at least once before at home, although I don't do that so much anymore. By 11 months he should be eating fine, and I don't think he'll go hungry
For milk, our daycare is 200m from my office so I'd pop up a couple of times a day initially (they'd ring when she was hungry) and around 8-9 months she started mucking around at the morning feed to the point where we decided to try just a lunchtime feed. That worked much better - she was obviously ready to drop the second feed. So from there till 12 months I went up at lunchtime to feed her, but around 11.5 months I arrived to find her *helping* to decorate the christmas tree. She looked up from where she was sitting in a sea of tinsel, grinned at me, and went back to playing. From the next 2 weeks, I still offered at lunch time, but she'd never have more than a couple of sucks. So I took that as time to quit the day feeds. She's with me 3-4 days a week, and those days she'd have more feeds than when she was in daycare, but eventually she dropped those day feeds too. She weaned at 16 months, but really because I was pg and the milk dried up from that.
I know the thought of leaving your baby to go back to work is heartbreaking and terrifying but tbh I found the thought of it way worse than the reality. And I think your situation sounds very do-able without too much stress on the baby.
Good luck (and try not to spend the next 5.5 months worrying about it, it really isn't so bad as it seems!).
BLW & Returning to Work
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